With sloppy focus I would expect windows to get focus when the mouse cursor *enters* the window. I wouldn't expect to get focus when the mouse cursor moves over a window that's not otherwise focused. For example, if I use alt-tab to focus window X while the mouse is over window Y, I wouldn't expect window Y to regain focus until I move my mouse outside Y and then back on top of it. Therefore I reject the second part of your argument.
The first part is plausible: should the mouse appearing over the window be treated the same as a window appearing under the mouse? It seems like a reasonable symmetry to do it that way. I argue that it doesn't work well in practice: background windows end up getting keyboard focus unpredictably. It took me *months* to notice that the position of the mouse cursor had any impact on background windows getting focus unexpectedly. I'm aware of the position of the mouse when I'm moving it, otherwise I forget where it is---and this makes the window manager's behaviour surprising, and that's not good for usability. I really ought to forward this issue upstream and stop wasting Ubuntu developer's time. -- new windows appearing under mouse cursor steal keyboard focus despite showing up in the background https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345872 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
